Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal treasury is doling out $1.49 billion worth of transit funding among cities in Ontario for track upgrades, new buses and improvements and accessibility upgrades to stations, the pr...

KHARTOUM, Sudan - South Sudan’s former rebel leader and vice-president who fled the country last week has re-emerged in neighbouring Sudan, which announced Tuesday that he had needed “urge...

VANCOUVER - Apparent laziness caused by the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana persists even when the same amount of pot’s medicinal component is added, a new study suggests. Lead author ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A central Arkansas city is effectively operating a debtors’ prison that imposes hefty fines and jail time for thousands of poor people whose checks bounce and infringes on th...

A painting at the centre of a strange multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit filed by a former Canadian correctional officer who owns the canvas was not the work of famed artist Peter Doig, a Chicago judge...

WILLIAMSBURG, Mass. - The health board in a small Massachusetts town says it can’t order a resident to remove the port-a-potties flanking his driveway despite the objections of neighbours. The t...

NEW YORK - A former Fox News host has sued the network, its ousted chairman and other top executives, claiming they retaliated after she detailed unwanted sexual advances made by her onetime boss, Rog...

Halifax police say the family of a toddler who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault is withdrawing their complaint. Spokeswoman Const. Dianne Woodworth said the department respects their decisi...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - When Elsie Wayne called Saint John, N.B., “the greatest little city in the east,” she made you believe it - and it was that unassailable love of her city that carried he...

TORONTO - Scores of aboriginals from across Ontario rallied Tuesday ahead of a landmark court hearing on whether the Canadian government robbed them of their cultural identities during a two-decade pe...